L ,I never thought of you blog as a feminist blog.I guess maybe I never gave it too much thought to categorize it.....I voted ...so good luck...

This brings me to a question I was going to ask earlier....My daughter is in Kindergarten and on Martin Luther King day they gave a brief history of the facts about him.........she has in her class of 28 , I believe 5 african-american children and she sees them the same way she sees all of the other children.....My question is ....Does anyone think they should tell them that their classmates ancestors were discriminated against for a long period of time in this country or should the topic not be spoken about at all? seeing that a majority of these children don't see them as being different at all....It's almost like you can teach racism without even trying to do so.......touchy subject I know , but a confusing one as a parent...I would appreciate some thoughts if anyone has any...

9casey: I feel that not only should they teach children about the horrible things from history, but they should teach them more in-depth. If you just say, "oh, well your grandparents were slaves and yours weren't," that's not gonna do much. They should get into what slavery was really about--have them hear all the stories about what it was like on slave ships, etc., In grade K, you should probably be more concerned about recess and nap-time and learning how to hold a pencil, but when they get a little older, and throughout their schooling, they should really know what it was like for all the oppressed people through history right up til today. That way, if everyone knows what everyone else's ancestors went through, maybe they'll be more empathetic instead of it being some kind of great divide. So to answer your question, kids absolutely need to hear about history, ignoring it will do no good.

Frankly I'm surprised that so many Canadians care about the Red Sox. Ontario beat out New Hampshire?!?! Craziness.

Still it's confusing to me that you have or even could win a Canadian sports blog award for a blog about a Boston team. You're pulling from a huge non-Canadian fan base (in addition to Canadian). I would think you'd have an unfair advantage over a lot of blogs.

I guess the point is you're a sports blog based in Canada. But still...

9Casey, it's very important for all kids to know that people can be and are discriminated against. In the US, everyone should know that that was a part of the US for a very long time. How can we ever learn from mistakes if we don't know what they are?